Focused Laser Differential Interferometry: Recent Developments and Applications for Flow Measurements

EK Benitez, A Ceruzzi, M Gragston… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI), first introduced in the 1970s, has developed
into a powerful tool for the analysis of turbulent dynamics and fluctuations in fluid flows …

Significance of the smaller scales for hypersonic turbulent boundary layers with focused laser differential interferometry

EK Benitez, M Aultman, L Duan, GP Camillo… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
While designed to suppress disturbances located away from its beam foci, focused laser
differential interferometry (FLDI) is known to have some integration of signals along its …

Combined experimental and numerical investigation of a hypersonic turbulent boundary layer by means of FLDI and large-eddy simulations

GP Camillo, A Wagner, T Toki, C Scalo - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
This work investigates a hypersonic turbulent boundary layer over a 7° half angle cone at a
wall-to-total temperature ratio of 0.1, M∞= 7.4 and R e∞ m= 4.2× 10 6 m− 1, in terms of …

[HTML][HTML] Displacement of hypersonic boundary layer instability and turbulence through transpiration cooling

P Kerth, LM Le Page, S Wylie, R Ravichandran… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Hypersonic boundary-layer transition onset is commonly characterized in wind tunnel
experiments by measuring the surface heat transfer rise above the laminar level …

Modification of Mach 6 Freestream Flow by Pitot Probe Bow Shock as Measured by Line FLDI and SAFS

JM Weisberger, BF Bathel, GC Herring… - AIAA SciTech 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Measurements of the flow in front of flat-face Pitot probes in NASA Langley Research
Center's 20-Inch Mach 6 Air Tunnel were made using a 35-point line focused laser …

Experimental investigation about the aerodynamic noise caused by hypersonic turbulence

X Liu, S Yi - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, experimental investigations pertaining to aerodynamic noise are conducted in
a hypersonic quiet wind tunnel, which possesses the unique capability of operating in both …

Imaging focused laser differential interferometry

AW Marsh, AN Kramer, KN Maranto… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) is an important diagnostic for measuring
density fluctuations in high-speed flows. Currently, however, high dynamic range FLDI is …

Attenuation of the acoustic noise radiated by a compressible boundary layer through injection of a vibrationally active gas

GI Gillespie, SJ Laurence - Experiments in Fluids, 2024 - Springer
The effects of vibrational nonequilibrium processes on turbulence-generated acoustic noise
were investigated in a Mach-2.8 shock-tunnel facility. Gas mixtures with relevant absorption …

Non-intrusive velocimetry in a supersonic reacting flow using two-point focused laser differential interferometry

A Ceruzzi, M Kanapathipillai, KH Yu… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0223. vid Two-point focused laser
differential interferometry (2pFLDI) is shown to be a viable technique for making non …

Noise generated in a scramjet combustor

R Ananthapadmanaban, TJ McIntyre… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents the noise levels generated inside a two-dimensional scramjet
combustor at Mach 7.3 freestream using the focused laser differential interferometric (FLDI) …